Digital Information Management for Educational use

Day 1: Advanced Search with Google

Advanced search methods•Basic usage•Boolean operators•Special operators depending on the type of search

Operators• +• Force the inclusion of an operand• Look for a Google+ profile

• @, #• Look for profiles or data in social networks

• $• Find prices

• ..• Specify a numeric range

Operators• -• Removes an entire term of the search

• “term”• Forces the inclusion of a full term in the search• Can be combined with * to provide a wildcard

• OR• Choose between two terms

• ~• Search for a synonym

Site related operators• site:• Performs a search inside an specified site

• link:• Finds results that link to the term we’ve specified

• related:• Finds similar websites

Site related operators• inurl: search for a term inside an URL• intitle: search for a term exclusively in the title• intext: search for a term exclusively in the text• inanchor: search for a term exclusively in a link text

• allinurl, allintitle, allintext, allinanchor

Features•On site calculator•Currency exchange•Reverse image search•Searching between specified dates